Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler o…

Nikos Kazantzakis
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Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery? ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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